Helen Willoughby
Experienced therapist with a practical, kind approach
About Helen
Helen Willoughby has been working in helping professions since 2003, after an earlier career as a nurse. She holds BACP and NCPS and draws on more than two decades of practical experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about difficult things.
Her work covers anxiety, depression, stress and bipolar mood issues, along with addictions and trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and family worries, grief, intimacy and sleeping problems. Special interests include parenting pressures, career change, ADHD, compassion fatigue and body image concerns. Helen uses a number of therapeutic methods to suit different needs.
She commonly uses client-centred ways of working to build trust, and cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Mindfulness practices are offered to help with emotion regulation and grounding, and she also draws on Jungian ideas to look at meaning and deeper patterns. Sessions aim to be practical and down to earth.
Helen answers questions at the start and sets clear steps so people know what to expect. She encourages small achievable changes and uses coaching-style work when clients want help with goals. Her practice accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally, and sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or messaging.
Helen keeps the tone kind and respectful and works at a pace chosen by each person.
What Helen works with
How Helen works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers a calm space where the person guides the pace and topics, which is helpful for building trust and tackling personal concerns.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings and actions. It includes practical exercises and short tasks people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or shift unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple ways to notice the body and breath and to steady strong emotions. These exercises can help with sleep issues, stress and overwhelming feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and try different methods to see what fits. Decisions about techniques are made with the client and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, written reflections or people who prefer not to use audio. These options make it straightforward to fit therapy into a busy life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
